Justice asks operators to report data on mobile phones near the dam – 26/01/2019



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The Federal Court of Minas Gerais met on Saturday (26) at the request of the Federal Attorney General's Office (AGU) and granted an injunction asking the telephone companies to provide data on the signal from the telephones of people in the area of ​​the dam that broke out in Brumadinho (MG).

The goal is to help search teams locate missing persons in the area after the tragedy.

The Attorney General of the Union, André Mendonça, said the measure reached a radius of 20 kilometers from the dam. "The idea is to do it from circumcentric spokes of one kilometer and an expansion from that," he said.

The decision applies to customers who were near the Córrego do Feijão mine, where the dam was located, between midnight on Thursday (24) and Friday at the same time (25). The dam broke out early in the afternoon of Friday.

"With this information, rescue teams can find out what devices remained active after the tragedy and which have remained inactive since then," said Union lawyer Marcus Castro.

Seven operators – Vivo, Tim, Claro, Oi, Nextel, Algar Telecom and Sercomtel – are expected to provide data to the Armed Forces, Civil Defense and State Firefighters.

Mendonca, who arrived around 6 pm at Plbadto Palace to attend a meeting of the crisis cabinet to monitor the dam's rupture, said that the judicialization of environmental problems "will certainly come at a later stage". 19659002] "We have already instructed the technical bodies to send them back to us as part of the evaluation, so that we can base any possible reparation measures on the people and the victims as well as on the other part of the project. environment, "he said.

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